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The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work

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At the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for service and professional jobs. Instant machine translation is melting language barriers, so the ranks of these "tele-migrants" will soon include almost every educated person in the world. Computing power is dissolving humans' monopoly on thinking, enabling AI-trained computers to compete for many of the same white-collar jobs. The combination of globalization and robotics is creating the globotics upheaval, and it threatens the very foundations of the liberal welfare-state.

Richard Baldwin, one of the world's leading globalization experts, argues that the inhuman speed of this transformation threatens to overwhelm our capacity to adapt. From computers in the office to automatic ordering systems in restaurants, we are familiar with the how digital technologies offer convenience while also eliminating jobs. Globotics will disrupt the lives of millions of white-collar workers much faster than automation, industrialization, and globalization disrupted the lives of factory workers in previous centuries. The result will be a backlash. Professional, white-collar, and service workers will agitate for a slowing of the unprecedented pace of disruption, as factory workers have done in years past.

Baldwin argues that the globotics upheaval will be countered in the short run by "shelter-ism" - government policies that shelter some service jobs from tele-migrants and thinking computers. In the long run, people will work in more human jobs-activities that require real people to use the uniquely human ability of independent thought-and this will strengthen bonds in local communities. Offering effective strategies such as focusing on the social value of work,
The Globotics Upheaval will help people prepare for the oncoming wave of an advanced robotic workforce.
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"This speculative book attempts to describe the future of work and explain how to prepare for it. Baldwin lays out various different attributes of working life, according to the different talents and industries involved." -- Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs

"Richard Baldwin has written the best book yet on the new economic era we are entering. Any worker, company or government who doesn't want to be left behind should read and consider his arguments." -- Lawrence H. Summers

"With its focus on the scale, speed and scope of technological transformation, and its impact on employment, this book breaks new ground." -- Gordon Brown, UK Prime Minister, 2007-2010

"Baldwin presents a compelling view of the future of work and the serious challenges ahead while there is still time to prepare. He wisely argues that we must protect workers, without necessarily protecting specific jobs as they become outdated, and that we must do more to help those who've been displaced by technology reenter the workforce and offer such individuals a strong safety net along the way."--Science magazine

"An important new book that delivers a timely warning to the world's business elite . . . confirms his place as one of the most important thinkers in this era of global disruption."
--James Crabtree,
Financial Times

"'It might just save your life -- and your children's lives.The Globotics Upheaval is a manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity . . . His prose is snappy . . . as good a summary as you'll read of the techno-revolution that is about to hit us."
--
Sunday Times (U.K.)

"Baldwin has written an engaging and informative book that guides the reader through this disruptive technological change. The Globotics Upheaval distils complex ideas into measured and understandable language that readers with no prior understanding of artificial intelligence and economics will be able to digest."--The Times (U.K.)

"The first book I've come across that ties together the two main forces shaping our world--globalisation and technological change--in an accessible way."--Business Post

"Provocative."--Reuters/Breakingviews

"This is a thought-provoking book by a leading expert on world trade."
--Martin Wolf,
Financial Times

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Richard Baldwin counters the combined threat of globalization and robotics with new policy perspectives to protect professional and service workers

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (February 8, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190901764
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190901769
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inches
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Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva since 1991, President/Director of CEPR since 2014, and Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU since he founded it in June 2007. He was visiting professor at Oxford (2012-2015), and MIT (2003). In terms of government service, he was a Senior Staff Economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisors in the Bush Administration (1990-1991) on leave from Columbia University Business School where he was Associate Professor. He did his PhD in Economics at MIT with Paul Krugman with whom he has co-authored several articles. He advises governments and international organisation around the world, and is the author of numerous books and articles on international trade, globalisation, regionalism, and European integration. His latest book, The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalisation, was published in November 2016 by Harvard University Press.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2020
    I am a professional futurist with degrees in economics and business. I've also designed R&D and commercial software products and worked as a business strategist for startups and global consulting firms. IMO, this is not only an entertaining read, but it's tightly aligned with my experiences and research. Seldom do I agree so strongly with an author's views about where technology is taking us, and what it means. I recommend this book for anyone interested in the future of work.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2019
    Nice insight and description of the various technology disruptions and subsequent industrial revolutions.
    AI is still in an embryonic stage with noticeable developments as from 2016; yet a highlighted table still shows that it will take 50 more years till robots replce humans; I would be 100 by then !
  • Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2019
    Great book, very insightful and inspiring. We can all benefit from digital technologies if we understand latest trends and skills needed for us to thrive in the digital economy.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2019
    Excellent book. Our society and the global society are rapidly changing the way we work and the needs to live above the poverty line.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2019
    This book would have been helped enormously had the author run it by someone with an undergraduate or even high school level education in science and technology.

    On page 6:

    "Globotics is thus ultimately linked to the laws of physics that apply to electrons and photons, not matter."

    "Electrons can violate many of the laws of physics that slow down globalization and automation in industry and agriculture."

    News flash: electrons are matter and they don't violate any "laws of physics".

    On page 14:

    "The Services Transformation was launched, in 1973, by the development of computers-on-a-chip and all the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) that followed."

    This is followed later on the same page by:

    "The Globotics Transformation has been launched by a third technological impulse--digital technology. The digitech impulse is radically different than steam power and ICT [...]"

    Excuse me, but "computers-on-a-chip" (microprocessors) are close to the basis of digital technology, not a precursor or something separate from it. They aren't two different things. If you're trying to draw a distinction, and maybe there is one in there somewhere, draw one that makes some sense.

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    p. 15:

    "Computers used to only be able to think in analytic, conscious ways since we only knew how to write computer programs that followed this type of thinking. Computers could not do intuitive, unconscious thinking since we didn't understand how humans think intuitively (we still don't)."

    It's pretty significant news that computers can "think" in "conscious ways"! What? I'm sure the author is saying something here, but it should have been stated more carefully.

    p. 96:

    "It takes eight bytes to store the letter 'a', or indeed any other character."

    Did anyone proof-read this book?

    p. 97

    "Metcalfe's law states the value of a network grows faster than the number of people connected to it. And not just a little bit faster, it grows twice as fast."

    No, no, NO! It states the value goes up as the SQUARE of the size of the network.

    [end edit]

    Unfortunately, such howlers render the entire body of work suspect, even if there is some good stuff in it, and I think there is quite a bit of good stuff in it. These were unforced errors.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2019
    Excelente enfoque sobre la robotizacion, el trabajo a distancia y sus implicancias.
    Extrapola el fenómeno a efectos sociales. Muy buen análisis.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2019
    This book made me think hard about how we embrace change, especially that which will decimate the jobs that we hold dear.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2019
    Great read about Globotics!

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  • C. Chapon
    1.0 out of 5 stars Damaged "new" item
    Reviewed in France on December 28, 2020
    The book was all good but I bought it brand new and yet it arrived with the spine quite seriously damaged on one side. I was able to fix the issue myself with strong glu but I am by no means satisfied by the service. Since then, I've had the same issue on another book and it's just too bad.
  • Hans
    5.0 out of 5 stars Genialer Entschlüsser der Digitalisierungs-DNA
    Reviewed in Germany on March 24, 2020
    Richard Baldwin versteht eindringlich die zwei wichtigsten Dinge der Digitalisierung herauszuarbeiten. Erstens warum historische Vergleiche hinken. Zweitens enthüllt er das Wesen der Digitalisierung mit ihrer exponentiellen Steigerung. In dem Zusammenhang macht er auch deutlich warum bisherige Geschäftsmodelle sich nicht adaptieren lassen. Ich kann das Buch nur jedem empfehlen der unter Digitalisierung mehr verstehen will als die Cloud.
  • nicholas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Do you care about your future?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2020
    Mind boggling and 21 century life changing book. As well as learning some history this 15 hour experience has opened my eyes to what's next and how one should prepare.
  • Borja C
    1.0 out of 5 stars Por edition
    Reviewed in Spain on April 14, 2019
    Nice book, poor edition
  • sac
    2.0 out of 5 stars Lazy fallacious arguments, and sloppy writing
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2019
    This books was so unbelievably frustrating to read for two reasons:
    Firstly the quality of Baldwin’s English is so bad, it made me question his credentials. Points are made inarticulately (e.g. “Since the “head workers” were already better off than the “hand workers,”[sic] a technology which favored brains over brawn favored the few were already favored, while disfavoring the many who weren’t”. (WHAT!?)
    He also tries to sound profound with statements like “...or was 2016 another turning point in history that failed to turn”.
    Secondly his arguments are oversimplified, careless, and just lazy, bordering on being non-sequiturs. His analysis of the the Trump and Brexit votes are hugely over-simplified, in a nutshell saying that it was down to uneducated people disaffected by technological changes and inadequate government policy in smoothing out disruption to labour markets; totally ignoring structural issues with the EU (e.g. single currency issues and the lack of monetary policy sovereignty of member states), and its anti competitive policies.
    He then jumps from this poorly worded spiel to the conclusion: ‘Technology did it!’ WTF? You wouldn’t get away with this at degree level!

    The one useful thing this book does is present cases of technological disruption in the workplace.